In the blink of an eye, the end of the year is approaching.

Things have been lackluster these past few months. Li Yanzhao took his cavalry in the barracks with his subordinates, which was nothing more than a day-to-day drill. Under his philosophy and carefully arranged training subjects, the Guangwu cavalry is undergoing an incredible transformation.

In Taishou's experimental field, winter wheat has also been sown, and when the spring and summer of the following year are handed over, Li Yanzhao can verify whether this method of producing two seasons of grain is feasible.

The families of the horsemen also harvested the autumn grain. Although this year is a drought year, as far as Li Yanzhao knows, the homes of his subordinates and horsemen are still passable. Especially after returning from the counterinsurgency, everyone also received a large amount of reward. Although the drought year has made the price of grain in Guangwu County bullish, there is no problem at all for everyone's family support until the beginning of spring next year.

When the family was stable, the soldiers' enthusiasm for the drill was unprecedentedly high. In the past few months, Li Yanzhao has been trained in weight-bearing mountain cross-country, mounted archery, and axe and hammer, which were rarely used in the past. Not only that, but every day after dinner, he organized two teams and ten leaders to his tent, and he personally taught everyone to read.

At first, even the two team leaders were unimpressed by the 100-man leader's move to organize literacy. It wasn't until Li Yanzhao took out a military map of the surrounding areas of Guangwu County, which was densely marked with small characters, and threw it in front of the two team leaders, asking them to find out the location of the three counties and the camp of the Guangwu Army on it. These two arrogant team leaders looked at the map for a long time, and felt that they had no idea where to start, so they paid attention to Li Yanzhao's arrangement.

In Li Yanzhao's imagination, in the future, in addition to scouting sentry cavalry, this Guangwu cavalry would often have to penetrate dozens or even hundreds of miles into the hinterland of the enemy. to reconnoiter the enemy's deployment, central institutions, and even the places where food and troops are stored. Such a high-intensity and high-density reconnaissance made it necessary for his cavalry to be literate and have a certain level of cultural literacy.

Although Li Yanzhao comes from the era of using simplified Chinese characters. However, out of love, he has also read books such as traditional history books and military books, so there is no obstacle to teaching junior officers here to read.

He gradually changed this Guangwu cavalry according to his own ideas, and looked forward to the future days, this cavalry will become the backbone of his vision.

In this way, at the end of the ninth year of Jianxing. Li Yanzhao ushered in his first New Year after coming to this era.

As is customary, New Year's leave. However, the soldiers in the barracks could not take a leave of absence. For this purpose, the Taishou and the Thousand Governors specially arranged for the battalion sergeants to be divided into two groups. One group went on leave, and the other group stayed in the camp and the county town. Rotate after 10 days. Since the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month.

Li Yanzhao asked the first wave to stay. Naturally, Liu Jiwu's soldiers, who had followed Li Yanzhao since the beginning of the army, also stayed. The cavalry led by Team Chen went home on vacation, and the sergeants of Team Lin and the team stayed behind with Li Yanzhao.

Li Yanzhao is not interested in this first New Year since he came to this era. After all, when he returned home on vacation, he was the only one, which was really lonely and miserable. Compared with this, if he was to choose by himself, he would prefer to go to the courtyard of Cao Jian, Liu Jiwu and their families, but it would be more lively and more New Year's flavor.

In the Guangwu military camp, a sumptuous New Year's feast was also prepared for the soldiers left behind. In the past, I couldn't get meat once or twice a month, but at this time, I prepared enough pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and other domestic animals and poultry. The Tongze of the Huotou Army were busy, both slaughtering and cooking. Every day, the smoke of the cooking room rises and does not gradually extinguish until the end of dinner.

The sergeants indulged in a sumptuous meal that was rare several times a year. Although it is either steamed or boiled, at this time of the year, even the stingy fireheads are willing to add enough salt to the dishes.

The soldiers who stayed behind never seemed to be so satisfied with the food. They were ravenously munching. Seeing everyone's appearance of eating Haisai nonsense, Li Yanzhao couldn't help laughing, not only because of the exaggerated actions of these soldiers. It is also because these soldiers from the ordinary people are so easy to satisfy.

From ancient times to the present, the common people of China are the easiest to satisfy. I only hope that the world is peaceful, and the whole family has enough to eat. You can honestly be tied to the land day after day, year after year, and toil. No matter how heavy the taxes are, as long as they can survive, the people will feel that the world is still good.

Just like these soldiers now. They don't care how boring or tiring training is. Faced with these meat dishes with plenty of salt, instead of the bland vegetable soup and gruel of the past, they were satisfied. I couldn't help but see a complicated feeling in Li Yanzhao's chest, and I didn't know if it was emotion or lamentation.

In the middle of the New Year, because the left-behind soldiers still had to be on duty in the military camp and the county seat, the cavalry even sent a team of three or five people to the vicinity of Jincheng from time to time to monitor and reconnoiter the movements on the border between Liangzhou and Chen'an, so the Thousand Governors and Li Yanzhao no longer arranged drills.

In addition to being on duty, the soldiers did some dice rolling and other things in the camp. On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, Li Yanzhao, like the rest of the officials in the camp, was too lazy to care. As long as the soldiers under their hands are not too excessive, they are happy to turn a blind eye, after all, life in the camp is so boring. At this time, if it is still strictly controlled as usual, it will most likely arouse the dissatisfaction of the battalion sergeants.

And this kind of dissatisfaction, under continuous high pressure, if there is a war, it is likely to cause night terrors and camp roars and other things that are out of control.

Li Yanzhao didn't know enough about this era. Therefore, when Liangzhou will have a war with the surrounding area, he is like ordinary people in this era, and he knows nothing. Even Liangzhou, a semi-independent regime that hangs outside the Jin court in the south of the Yangtze River, can hold up in this troubled era, it is unknown to him.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the Lin team led this group of men and horses to be on duty on the last day. The soldiers were all excited, after all, they would be able to go home tonight to reunite with their loved ones. Everyone is in good spirits, whether they are patrolling the camp or rolling dice in the tent, their spirits are much better than in the past.

Li Yanzhao was bored, and he also climbed the watchtower in the corner of the camp wall. There were two soldiers of the shooting battalion standing on the watchtower, and when they saw the hundred-man commander of the famous battalion climbing up the watchtower, they thought that they had come to inspect their guards, and they turned around to salute.

Li Yanzhao didn't put on a show, and when he saw these two soldiers saluting him, he also hurriedly returned the salute. The words encouraged the two of them. Then he stood on the watchtower and looked out.

The surrounding mountain streams and mountains and forests are all in his eyes at this moment. Although the forest is still bare, the trunks of the trees are still covered with a lot of residual snow. However, Li Yanzhao saw a little spring from the gradually melting snow in front of him.

Just as Li Yanzhao was immersed in the picture scroll full of vitality in front of him, he saw three small black dots appear in the distance, rapidly approaching the camp.

When the three black spots got a little closer, Li Yanzhao looked at it, but he went to the vicinity of Jincheng to monitor the surveillance post of Chen An's department on the other side of the Yellow River.

It was not yet noon, and it was said that the watch posts would not return to the camp before the hour of rotation. Now that they have returned to the camp, there is only one explanation - there is military intelligence!

Li Yanzhao hurriedly walked to the watchtower and climbed down the ladder. Then he walked straight to the camp gate, and under the watchful eyes of the guards on duty at the camp gate, he anxiously waited for the returning surveillance guards.

Soon, the horsemen rushed to the camp gate. Dismounted and was about to enter the camp, but saw Li Yanzhao standing at the camp gate. A cavalryman hurriedly handed the reins in his hand to his companions, and when he entered the camp gate, he hugged his fist and saluted Li Yanzhao: "Captain of a hundred people." Team Chen led his cavalry Wang Bin, and there was an urgent military retribution! ”

Li Yanzhao didn't care about nonsense, and led Wang Bin to his big tent. After entering the big tent, Li Yanzhao sat straight in front of the first few cases, spread out the pen and paper, and said to Wang Bin: "Let's talk about it, the military situation is urgent, and I can't afford to wait." ”

Wang Bin clenched his fists and received the order, and then said: "When my subordinates are in the middle of the day, I will go with five Tongze to replace the surveillance post." Cross the river according to the plan of 100 people, and go about 50 miles deep. Unexpectedly, I saw that on the shore of Taoshui, Chen An's department was recruiting the crowd. The tent stretched for more than ten miles, and I didn't know what I wanted. He hurried to report back. ”

When Li Yanzhao heard Wang Bin's report, he pondered for a moment, and then asked, "As far as you can see, can there be any additional troops in Jincheng County?" ”

Wang Bin clasped his fists: "Jincheng County has not increased its troops, but the elite of Chen An's department has recruited and sent the Diqiang department and camped on the bank of Taoshui." ”

Hearing this, Li Yanzhao nodded, then took out the money bag from his arms, took out a handful of copper coins and rewarded the soldier in front of him, and said, "This military situation is very critical. You've worked hard. This money should be a certain point of mind, and after returning home, take it with the robes to exchange for some wine and drink. ”

Wang Bin looked at the copper coin, but he didn't dare to say anything. It wasn't until Li Yanzhao forced it into his hand that he accepted it uneasily, and then thanked him and withdrew from the tent.